Rishi finally makes a choice

Since he became Prime Minister Sunak has been trying to run a dual political strategy. On the one hand he wanted to look competent and sensible to home counties Tory voters horrified by the chaos of Johnson and Truss: fiscally cautious, focused on meaningful policy pledges, and developing long-term policy ideas. On the other, he wanted to continue appealing to the new voters the Conservatives won in 2019 by offering authoritarian policies on immigration along with rhetorical attacks on “wokeness